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Question 1

behaviourist essay

Answer 1

• central claim is that almost all human behaviour is result of learning - favoured lab experiment
• explore relationship between learning and behaviour - Pavlov - developed theory of classical conditioning - repeated exposure to event leads to a learned and uncontrollable behaviour
• skinner - behaviour result of learning - consequences of actions - operant conditioning - three types of consequences - positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement and punishment - behaviour is result of learning and remembering consequences of previous behaviours